BARBIE MOVIE REVIEW ** A year and half later** 🎀👛

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Barbie is just a movie, movies are subjective, and yet there have been folks attacked by those who disagreed on their personal opinions. Some women have made videos demanding others to dump their partners if they didn’t like the movie, which is ludicrous. So it comes as no surprise that the film is perceived as third-wave feminist propaganda, among others. Ken has an antagonist in Barbie Land, but Barbie does not. We are never shown how an idiot like Ken manages to takeover an imaginary land, we are only shown how Gloria (America Ferrera), believing that the Barbies have been “brainwashed”, suggests that they manipulate the Kens. They make the Kens fight each other, but none of the Barbies are shown to fight each other (a little catfight would have been amusing). They mention the awful “Patriarchy” several times over, but never once utter the word “Matriarchy”. Barbie has thoughts of death, when her creator magically appears and shows Barbie what it means to be human (I was expecting disturbing imagery), but it’s just a montage of mothers and daughters (not even any father/daughter or son). Greta Gerwig’s own mother was never a fan of Barbie and discouraged her daughter from playing with them. But Greta has ADHD (which was a late diagnosis) and wanted what all the other girls in her neighborhood were playing with. Now just cuz Greta finally got to play with Barbies doesn’t make her a fan. She directed and co-wrote Barbie together with her husband Noah Baumbach (who didn’t even wanna do it). Greta doesn't really have any clue about Barbie and only sees her as a Stereotypical (Bimbo) doll with no personality. She never bothered to watch any of the animated Barbie movies to get a sense of who Barbie is. She apparently grew up in a household with no television (so no cartoons!). Yikes! Some have cited such films as Legally Blonde, Clueless, and Life-Size, as much better Barbie movies. Their lead protagonists behave exactly the way Barbie would. They may look shallow on the outside, but deep down inside they’re even more beautiful. That’s cuz looks can be deceiving, and don’t judge a book by its cover. Margot Robbie’s Barbie doesn’t have a clue what she wants and is only interested in her needs and not those around her. She abandons Ken and her very own people without a second thought. Rejects everything we’ve come to associate with the iconic doll and walks into a gynecologist’s office in Birkenstock sandals? The irony is that Mattel doesn’t even subscribe to this newfound ingénue, they manufactured dolls of the movie in Barbies likeness, and that includes heels, not icky sandals.